Oracle® Grid Infrastructure

Installation Guide

11g Release 2 (11.2) for Linux

E22489-08

September 2012

Oracle Grid Infrastructure Installation Guide, 11g Release 2 (11.2) for Linux

E22489-08

Primary Author: Douglas Williams

Contributing Authors: David Brower, Jonathan Creighton, Barb Lundhild, Saar Maoz, Markus Michalewicz, Hanlin Qian, Janet Stern

Contributors: Aiman Al-Khammash, Troy Anthony, Ram Avudaiappan, Mario Barrientos, Mark Bauer, Yuki Feng, Mark Fuller, Barb Glover, Fred Glover, Paul Harter, Yingwei Hu, Masakazu Ito, Mayumi Hayasaka, Prakash Jashnani, Sameer Joshi, Sana Karam, Roland Knapp, Erich Kreisler, Jai Krishnani, Shashi Lanka, John Leys, Karen Li, Rich Long, Scott Lu, Dave Marshall, Greg Mengel, Manami Miyanaga, Anil Nair, Van Okamura, Stefan Pommerenk, Srinivas Poovala, Justin Ren, Sudhe Sampath, Shachi Sanklecha, Vishal Saxena, Janelle Simmons, Akshay Shah, Ara Shakian, Vivian Schupmann, James Spiller, Malai Stalin, Dipak Saggi, Bob Thome, S. Matt Taylor, Preethi Vallam, Rick Wessman, Jim Womack, Warren Xu, Sivakumar Yarlagadda, Min Yu, Yunzhou Zheng, Ricky Zhu

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